IsumaTV at AIATSIS symposium: Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities

TEAGUE SCHNEITER (US/CA): Digital ≠ Accessible: Improving Access and Facilitating Use of Indigenous Content with IsumaTV’s H from network cultures on Vimeo.

Read this interesting blog on open source tools for heritage organizations and individuals who wish to take on projects involving photo manipulation, exhibit design, collection management, and graphics. These tools are free and open source, and could help you further your projects.… Read more

If you have a channel on IsumaTV and are posting videos, we encourage you to add as much information in as many languages as you can about your channel, your organization, you as a filmmaker, and about each post.

Click here to see the video documentation of Teague Schneiter and John Hodgins of IsumaTV discussing the importance of high-speed video access in remote Nunavut.

Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan is a website dedicated to the Innu nation in which elders pass on their skills and knowledge to younger generations.

NEW RESOURCE: "Getting Ready in Indian Country: Emergency Preparedness and Response for Native American Cultural Resources," is a free online resource offered through Heritage Preservation. Additional information on accessing the resources may be found below or by visiting the link below.

This is Taz Morgan, the Media Archive Intern at WITNESS. Teague Schneiter thought the IsumaTV community would be interested in this post that I wrote for the WITNESS blog. 

At this year's annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), as IsumaTV's Archivist, I spoke about the importance and challenges and opportunities that are afforded through indigenous archiving.

I discussed our own Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive project, as well as examples from other indigenous-designed community archives. 

IsumaTV are headed to New York this weekend for the second annual Open Video Conference. The event brings together a wide array of participants, from technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers, video creators, remixers, activists, archivists, as and online video audiences.… Read more